Clothes-wringer.



R. WALTHER, Jn. & W. H. SCHERER. CLOTHES WRINGER. APPLIOATION FILED Ammo, 1909.

938,358. Patented 0@t.26,1909.

A UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

BDBERT WALTHER, JB., AND WILLIAM H. SCHEREB, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Application led April 20, 1909.4 Serial No. 491,176.

power for imparting a centrifugal motion to a wringer for extracting water from clothes placed 1n the wringer.

The object of our wringer is to provide a centrifugal wringer with a simple, durable and inexpensive water wheel or motor adapted to rapidly revolve when the ordinary pressure of water is projected against the wheel or motor. le attain the above object by providing a stationary receptacle with a revoluble cage upon the bottom of which there is arranged a wheel or motor having bladespositioned to impart a rotary movement' to the cage when water is projected against said blades.

Our invention will be hereinafter' described in detail and then pointed out in the appended claims and reference will now be had to the drawing forming part of this specification, 4in which- Figure 1 is an elevation ofthe clothes wringer partly broken away and partly in section, Fig. 2 is an elevation of a detachable c/agefFig. 3 is a bottom plan of a portion of a water wheel or motor, and Fig. 4 is a top plan of the same.

In the drawings, 1 denotes a cylindrical receptacle having the bottom 2 thereof suitably secured to thecap 3 of4 a tripod 4. The cap 3 is provided with a depending stuffing box 5 through which extends a vertical shaft 6, said shaft having the lower end thereof supported by antifriction balls 7, located in the spider 8 supported by the tripod 4. Antifriction balls 9 are'used` in the cap 3, and ythese balls together with the balls' 7 lare adapted to reduce the .friction between said shaft and these bearings to a minimum.

10 designates a cylindrical cage, preferably made of interwoven wire, said cage bein of a less diameter than the receptacle 1, w ereby said cage can be xed to the within said receptacle.

upper end of the shaft 6 to freely revolve The cage 10 is provided with a solid bottom plate 11 to which the shaft 6 is connected, said bottom plate having depending brackets 12 for supporting a circular motor plate 13 through which the shaft 6 extends and can be secured to said plate.

14 designates a plurality .of circumferentially arranged and radially disposed blades secured to the underside of the plate 13 at the edges thereof, said blades protruding beyond the edges of the motor. plate 13, while their inner ends are flanged, as at 15, and riveted or otherwise secured to the Inotor plate, as at 16, each blade 14 is disposed at an inclination relative to the motor plate 13 to present a flat surface at right angles to the direction in which water is projected by transversely-extending noz'- zles 17 extending into the receptacle 1 and having the discharge ends thereof depending at an inclination. These nozzles are adapted to be connected to ordinary water lsupply pipes, and the inner ends of said nozzles extend downwardly and tangentially relative to the periphery of a motor, whereby water dschargedby said nozzlescwill impinge the blades and cause the cage 10 to revolve. It will, of course, be understood that the nozzles 17 are projected at op osite angles within the receptacle 1, where y said nozzles will coperate to prop el the water wheel or motor in one direction.

When the cage 10 is rapidly revolved, water is extracted or forced from the clothes within the cage by the centrifugal force created by the rapidly revolving cage, and the water extracted from the clothes, together with the water discharged from the nozzle 17, is carried olf from the receptacle 1 by a drain pipe 18. i

It is thought that the operation and utility of our wringer will be apparent Ywithout further description, and while in the drawings there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood that the structural elements thereof said support and extending into said receptacle, a cage arranged within the receptacle and connected to the shaft7 brackets del pending from the bottom of said cage, a motor plate of less diameter than the dii ameter of the bottom of the cage and con- I nected to the lower ends of said brackets l whereby a space is formed between the bottom of said receptacle and said plate, a plurality of circumferentially-arranged and radially-disposed blades connected to the lower face of said plate atthe perimeter thereof and extending downwardly there from, and nozzles extending in said receptacle, in a plane between the bottom of the cage and the top of the plate and having the discharge ends thereof depending at an inclination and adapted to discharge water against the outwardly projecting portions I of the blades to simultaneously revolve said plate and cage.

2. A machine of the character described t comprising a receptacle, a support for said l receptacle, a revoluble shaft journaled in i said support and extending into said receptacle, a cage arranged within the receptacle and connected to the shaft, brackets depending from the bottom of said cage, a motor plate of less diameter than the diameter of the bottom of the cage and connected to the lower ends of said brackets whereby a space is formed between the bottom of said receptacle and said plate, a plurality of cir- 1 cumferentially arranged and radially disposed blades connected to the lower face of said plate at the perimeter thereof and extending downwardly therefrom, and nozzles extending in said receptacle, in a plane between the bottom of the cage and the top of the plate and having the discharge ends thereof depending at an inclination and adapted to discharge water against the o-utwardly projecting portions of the blades to simultaneously revolve said plate and cage,

said blades disposed at an inclination with respect to the lower face of the plate, and a drain pipe communicating with the bottoni of said receptacle. 4

In testimony whereof We affix our signa# tures in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT WALTIIER, .IRQ WILLIAM II. sonnerie.

Witnesses FRANK Y. OVER, JAS. M. MILLER. 

